JonBenet and A Hostage Speaks Out
Posted by: Denelle
I've been trying to lay low the past few days and let our guest bloggers (thanks ArmyBrat and Liz) have the spotlight so they can bring you moment by moment posts.
But there is entirely too much going on in the world right now for me to just stay quiet.
JonBenet Ramsey
In a surprise twist that couldn't have been better written in a mystery thriller police announced yesterday that they were arresting American John Mark Karr in Thailand for the 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey. The six year old's murder was the subject of constant media attention in the months following her death and even during the following years as the case grew colder. What I find most strange about this situation is that Karr has admitted that he was with JonBenet when she died and answered reporters question of whether he was an innocent man with a "no." However, he has not come right out and confessed to the murder and it leaves me wondering if perhaps there wasn't a second person involved. Moreover, Karr doesn't have any direct link to the Ramsey's, didn't live in Boulder, and shouldn't have had knowledge of the Ramsey's home (police have said that based on where the girl's body was found the killer was probably familiar with the floorplan of the house).
I'm always one for a good conspiracy theory but I simply think that there are still gaping holes in this case and in John Mark Karr's story. Perhaps over the next few days things will start to add up. But for now I'm still a skeptic.
Jill Carroll
I'm not even sure that people immediately recognize her name. However, once you make the connection it's hard to forget that this woman spent over 80 days as a hostage in Iraq. Jill has now composed a series of articles and interviews recounting her ordeal for the Christian Science Monitor (the paper she was working for when she was kidnapped). It is difficult to comprehend her treatment with what I think most of us immediately think of with kidnapping. Not that she wasn't terrified or that the situation could have changed at any moment. This is an excellent series and well worth reading/downloading. It is updated on a daily basis (I believe) continuing over the next week.
Other Stuff . . .
I wanted to talk about the tentative Cease Fire in Lebanon and the terror plots that were averted last week but that would make this post ridiculously long. So I'll save those for later.
As always feel free to share your thoughts on these subjects by replying below or emailing me.
I've been trying to lay low the past few days and let our guest bloggers (thanks ArmyBrat and Liz) have the spotlight so they can bring you moment by moment posts.
But there is entirely too much going on in the world right now for me to just stay quiet.
JonBenet Ramsey
In a surprise twist that couldn't have been better written in a mystery thriller police announced yesterday that they were arresting American John Mark Karr in Thailand for the 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey. The six year old's murder was the subject of constant media attention in the months following her death and even during the following years as the case grew colder. What I find most strange about this situation is that Karr has admitted that he was with JonBenet when she died and answered reporters question of whether he was an innocent man with a "no." However, he has not come right out and confessed to the murder and it leaves me wondering if perhaps there wasn't a second person involved. Moreover, Karr doesn't have any direct link to the Ramsey's, didn't live in Boulder, and shouldn't have had knowledge of the Ramsey's home (police have said that based on where the girl's body was found the killer was probably familiar with the floorplan of the house).
I'm always one for a good conspiracy theory but I simply think that there are still gaping holes in this case and in John Mark Karr's story. Perhaps over the next few days things will start to add up. But for now I'm still a skeptic.
Jill Carroll
I'm not even sure that people immediately recognize her name. However, once you make the connection it's hard to forget that this woman spent over 80 days as a hostage in Iraq. Jill has now composed a series of articles and interviews recounting her ordeal for the Christian Science Monitor (the paper she was working for when she was kidnapped). It is difficult to comprehend her treatment with what I think most of us immediately think of with kidnapping. Not that she wasn't terrified or that the situation could have changed at any moment. This is an excellent series and well worth reading/downloading. It is updated on a daily basis (I believe) continuing over the next week.
Other Stuff . . .
I wanted to talk about the tentative Cease Fire in Lebanon and the terror plots that were averted last week but that would make this post ridiculously long. So I'll save those for later.
As always feel free to share your thoughts on these subjects by replying below or emailing me.
